Farewell to Oxford

Our bags are packed and we are waiting for the taxi to help us take our luggage over to the University. We are storing the bulk of our luggage in the lab for the next 8 days while we head to Scotland and Northern England. We'll just have overnight bags and our computers for the final leg of our trip.


Yesterday we ran errands (returned library books!) and picked up last minute souvenirs, ending our afternoon at the Turf Tavern, where the Hodgkin lab members met us for a farewell pint. Philip and Jonathan entertained us with stories from the worm research community over the years-- since both of them have been working in the field since the mid-70's...

Mocha break

Our train for Edinburgh leaves at 7:30am tomorrow morning-- a 6-1/2 hour trip by rail. We'll be staying with our friends Carol and Thomas Lenagan up there for 4 nights, before returning to northern England for several nights, then flying home on August 21st.

We hope to post blog entries while on the road, but as I learned on our trip to Ireland last week-- internet access is not always easy to find.

More soon,
Deb